The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez
When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer. — John Gray
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. — Samuel Johnson
Distant Relationship Image Quotes
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
Long Distant Relationship Quotes
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long. — Sappho
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. — Vita Sackville-West
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. — Mignon McLaughlin
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. — Elizabeth Berg
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles. — John Masefield
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
Separation is not the end of love; it creates love. — Nancy Friday
Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view. — Hunter Hayes
Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart. — Diane Warren
I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby. — Robbie Williams
Distance Friendship Quotes
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. — Robert Southey
Friendships and loves are forgotten, and when they meet, they talk like strangers, like passers-by — Greek Proverbs
We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike. — Anneli Rufus
Show respect even to people who don't deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love. — Brian Houston
A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away. — Noah
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe. — Henri Nouwen
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. — Paul Valery
Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible. — Henry Fielding
Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning. — Henri Nouwen
True friendship resists time, distance and silence. — Isabel Allende
Distance Love Quotes
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty
distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest. — Pablo Neruda
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen
The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you. — Nicholas Sparks
Distant Friend Quotes
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself. — Rolf Jacobsen
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely. — Virginia Woolf
If you're abest during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me. — Paul Klee
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. — Paul Cezanne
Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage? — Confucius
Don't inflict pains from your past on your present relationships.
When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information. — George Barna
The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known. — Yoshida Kenko
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. — Samuel Johnson
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. — Confucius
Long Distance Relationship Quotes
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. — Rick Warren
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault. If they betray you twice, it's your fault.
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks
It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does. — Peter McWilliams
How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Dorothy Day
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. — Charles M. Schulz
When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come. — Oprah Winfrey
Being Distant Quotes
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking. — Alexander Graham Bell
Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. — Angela Merkel
I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet. — Grace Kelly
Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return. — Subramanya Bharathi
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star. — Sadegh Hedayat
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. — Margaret Thatcher
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. — Frances Perkins
When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere. — Sathya Sai Baba
There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic. — Helmut Newton
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. — Charles Darwin
Distance Relationship Quotes
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. — Sydney Schanberg
A good neighbour is better than a brother far off. — Danish Proverbs
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. — John Dryden
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. — Unknown Author
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall — George Fetherling
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you. — Andrew Davidson
Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender, versus one that is judging, distancing or ignoring. This is the beginning of being capable of intimacy with others. — Tara Brach
It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true. — Haruki Murakami
No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them. — Christie Watson
Difficult Relationship Quotes
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis
It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss. — African Proverbs
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues. — Doreen Virtue
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. — Paul Watzlawick
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. — Denis Waitley
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving. — Joan Bauer
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. — Gustave Flaubert
It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him. — Kate Beckinsale
The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them. — Sue Johnson
Love And Long Distance Quotes
I am waiting for the day when I will see you again and hold your soft hands, touch your sweet lips and hug you tight so that you will never leave me again. — Mercy Johnson
Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence. — Richard J. Foster
always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself — John Gray
We knew we'd be together, we didn't know when,
But long distance love, never thought it would end.
The feelings never changed until the call came...
You were engaged, I was in pain.
It was such a shame: the timing, it just wasn't right.
So I say, 'Good luck,' and then I say, 'Good night.' — MURS
I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday — Nicholas Sparks
Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks — Amit Abraham
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. — Rick Warren
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences. — Charley Harper
Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down. — Shane Johnson
Good Long Distance Relationship Quotes
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference. — Ernest Hemingway
One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you. — Robert Dodsley
I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you. — Mary Martin
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you — Richard Marx
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. — Aristotle
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer
The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality.. — Pierre Reverdy
We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling as our body. The rivers are our circulation. This air is our breath. And the star stuff, the carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen that comes from distant galaxies is actually the molecules of your body. — Deepak Chopra
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. — Ezra Cornell
I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror. — Harrison Ford
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. — John Steinbeck
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. — Igor Stravinsky
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. — Josh Lanyon
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. — Megan McCafferty
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay. — Maggie Stiefvater
I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell. — Haruki Murakami
I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power in this culture. They mainline directly into a whole series of emotional reactions and understandings of American patriotism, masculinity, and all of these other things. — Phil Klay
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity. — Judith Butler
There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power. — Zephyr Teachout
We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being. — William P. Young
The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image. — Pierre Reverdy
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. — Paul Goldberger
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too. — Aimee Carter
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of distant relationship quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about distant relationship to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of distant relationship quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
